U.S. jobs report, Russia’s digital ruble rollout: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Aug. 31.
Live updates: Bitcoin holds $78,000 as yen breaks 160 and rate-hike bets lift the dollar
Bitcoin is holding just under $78,000 as August closes. The dollar strength that pushed the yen past its intervention line is the same force capping crypto.
Luke Dashjr exits mining pool Ocean after split over Bitcoin mining’s future
The split was mutual, with both parties citing differing views on the future of Bitcoin mining and recent protocol developments.
Your Executives Are Faking It on AI. The Machines Aren’t Waiting
By Wendy Lynch, PhD Three out of four C-suite executives recently admitted, in a confidential survey, that they had projected more confidence in their AI strategy than they actually felt. Seventy-four percent. Read that again: by their own account, most of the people signing off on AI are acting on mission-critical issues they do not … Read more
September Fed rate hike fears look overblown as the probability stands at just 58%, not 90%
Odds of a rate hike in September remain below 60% despite Warsh’s hawkish speech on Friday. Observers downplay fears of tightening.
Zcash private transactions could go from three-second waits to under 200 milliseconds
Zakura says a new cryptography stack makes mobile proof generation more than 14 times faster, removing one of the biggest delays users face when sending private ZEC.
Cronos halts blockchain after $75 million lending exploit hits lending app Tectonic
An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100-fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and left most funds stranded when Cronos validators paused the network.
Bitcoin barely blinks as U.S. hits Iran, sending oil higher and stocks lower
BTC remains August’s best-performing asset after the latest escalation in geopolitical tensions.
Cronos halts network after Tectonic exploit involving estimated $75M
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company’s app and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally.
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off
George Arison is done letting Wall Street’s “Grindr discount” go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the “gayborhood in your pocket” he’s been promising since 2022.
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Bitcoin’s new quantum defenses, 18.9M SOL cancelled: Hodler’s Digest
Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle.
Ex-White House Teleprompter Operator Fined for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Gabriel Perez used his access to Trump’s speeches before delivery to bet on “presidential mention market” contracts, profiting more than $107,500 before the CFTC caught up with him.
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Polygon Quietly Patched Security Flaws in Two Hard Forks Before Disclosing Them
The Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited.
Why Mouse Jigglers Defeat Activity-Based Time Tracking
Activity percentages on time-tracking dashboards are basically a compressed view of mouse and keyboard input. Hardware jigglers, software “movers,” and keep-awake scripts exist because they game that view: they keep the green bar green without proving anyone is working. Richer Windows endpoint data—apps, session state, files, network—can make fake presence look thin. Correlation still isn’t … Read more
How to Match Cold Outreach CTAs to Buyer Readiness
Cold outreach advice tends to begin with what the seller can edit. Shorten the subject line. Personalize the opener. Improve the CTA. Add another follow-up. Those levers matter because they are visible, measurable, and easy to change. But they leave the more consequential question untouched: What decision is the buyer being asked to make next? … Read more
Why Standard WER Lies to You in Dialect AI
I recently moved to the US. Long before I moved, I built my very first voice agent. It didn’t take long to realize a fundamental flaw in standard architectures: the underlying models were heavily biased towards standard American accents. The moment an input featured a non-standard accent, regional dialect, or code-switched phrasing, the pipeline broke … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Nine-Day Inflow Streak as Ethereum Funds Extend Their Run
Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on Aug. 28, ending a nine-day inflow run, even as Ethereum funds extended a 10-day streak with fresh cash.
Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I’ve found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you … Read more
The Cross-Category Practice of Industrial Designer Kyung-seo Yoo
Kyung-seo Yoo is an industrial designer who works across categories most people spend a career specializing in. She trained in industrial design at RISD, with a concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture and cross-registration in Design Engineering at Brown, and now designs professionally while also developing her own projects independently, end to end, from first … Read more